An Updated List of Sprint
Drops and Areas, Locations and Roads where Sprint's Wireless Services have
Poor Coverage and/or Experience Service Difficulties.

Last Update: 01/28/2016

This list is intended to provide a consolidated reference to a series of
posts, messages, and other observations as to dropped calls, poor handoffs
and cellular service and feature issues using Sprint's Cellular (voice) service in the
US. This list may also be used to predict drops for Sprint's Mobile
Virtual Network Operators (MVNO's) such as Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile/USA, who are
effectively "resellers" which re-brand and sometimes customize their
service offerings but fundamentally are using Sprint's network.

After utilizing Sprint's CDMA wireless/cellular service (as compared to
the now-defunct Nextel/iDEN Network",
which was taken over - and subsequently ruined - by Sprint) for a number
of years, and based upon reports made by other people with whom we work,
we've observed a series of repeated call drops and other associated
coverage issues with Sprint's Wireless/Cellular Voice and Data Service(s),
which are detailed below in a state-by-state listing of Sprint's dropped
calls and (technical) service difficulties (their customer service
issues are a whole other matter!).

While this list of cellular drops on Sprint's remaining CDMA network (now that they ceased Nextel service) is not
as extensive as some of our other "dropped call" lists which pertain to
major US carriers, the relative brevity is not due to Sprint
having superior coverage -- far from it! In fact, Sprint's drops and
service difficulties are in our collective experiences place Sprint on the
lower end (in terms of reliabiltity and good coverage) of the larger
domestic US carriers, and thus the more limited scope of the entries below
is reflective more of our desire to avoid using Sprint (precisely
due to all the problems experienced with them and thus having fewer
opportunities to experience their poor coverage) rather than any
endorsement of the robustness of their lackluster coverage.

Indeed, in many cases outside of urban areas, Sprint roams on Verizon
Wireless (a fellow CDMA carrier) as Sprint offers scant to no coverage in
many of these areas. Thus, many of the exurban/rural drops noted on the Verizon Wireless dropped
call list would also be experienced by Sprint customers, which would
then be compounded with Sprint's own drops as detailed below.

NOTE: Sprint functions as the uderlying carrier for a number of Mobile
Virtual Network Operators (MVNO's), such as Boost Mobile and Virgin
Mobile. In most if not all cases, this list should serve equally well for
Boost/Virgin/other MVNO's as it does as a compilation of Sprint
performance issues, however, in most cases, MVNO's are not permitted to
roam onto Verizon, hence a given Boost/Virgin/MVNO customer's coverage and
service experience(s) may be worse than than of a post-paid
(direct) Sprint customer due to the lack or roaming and thus the sole
reliance on Sprint's less-than-satisfactory network.

Many of the drops could be loosely termed "handoff drops", ie, as a
vehicle moves along a given road, Sprint's service repeatedly drops in the
same general area during different trips, or when leaving an area of
Sprint coverage service is unable to successfully transition to an
alternate carrier who does have coverage in the given area (generally, but
not limited to, Verizon Wireless).

The list below thus details areas where we have had repeated drops over a
period of time. We encourage others who have noticed similar drops and/or
problems with their service to contact us so that their issues can be
accordingly reported on this list.

Drop occurs at least 3 times traveling in the same direction (i.e.,
Eastbound on a given road)

Drops occur over a period of more than a month, e.g., if a drop is
experienced on 05/01/2005 it still needs to drop on 06/01/2005 for it to
be posted.

Drops are moving drops in areas of strong coverage,
i.e., these aren't "I can't get coverage when I sit in my living room
corner" situations, but areas where there is otherwise good coverage and
the phone just for no apparent reason drops. (This doesn't just pertain to
motorists and roads; we also list Sprint Wireless call drops on Amtrak and
commuter rail services, parks, and other areas without vehicular traffic,
etc.)

Drops are in areas of otherwise good coverage, e.g.,
the drops listed are not in areas where Sprint has/have no coverage.
Thus, there are no posts saying "My Sprint cell phone dropped on I-89
crossing the NH/VT line" since Sprint doesn't cover there, yet.

Ordering Note: Lists are alphabetically organized, first by state
and then by counties within states. In some cases, large Metropolitan
areas which span a multiple set of counties, states or boundaries are
listed as separate entities (such as New York City).

Please feel free to submit your drop/reset experiences with Sprint which
meet the above guidelines so that we can provide a more comprehensive
list. Contact information for this list is provided at the end of this page.

Additionally, if you feel that an item is incorrect, please let us know
the specifics of your experiences in the given area so we can test it and
modify the list accordingly.

Mercer County, Princeton: Sprint calls drop on US-1 just north of the
intersection with Harrison Rd. (Harrison has a poorly set traffic light
which for no reason in the middle of the night turns red, apparently just
to slow traffic down on US-1. So much for Princeton's 'environmentalist'
goals -- causing cars to stop and then accelerate southwards up US-1
towards Forrestal certainly helps stop unnecessary pollution! ;(
). By way of comparison to other carriers, Verizon no longer has coverage
drops there, even though traditionally it had been the demarcation between
the NY-Metro system and the Philadelphia system. If Verizon could fix it's
more systemic problems there, Sprint should be able to fix theirs as
well, especially on the busiest road (US-1) in the area for local
traffic. Last observed: 01/20/2015

New York

New York City 5-Borough/Counties:

New York County (Mahattan): Sprint voice and data calls drop going
from Penn Station going either north (eastward towards Long Island on the
LIRR, or on the Northeast Corridor towards CT and Boston on Amtrak), or
heading south (westward, towards NJ via NJ Transit or Amtrak to DC and
Florida). While there is coverage in Penn Station, calls will drop
entering either the East River Tubes or the Hudson River Tubes. While
Verizon Wireless does have "through coverage" throughout Penn Station and
under both rivers, Sprint will not hand off to Verizon, and calls iniated
on Sprint will drop upon entering either set of tunnels to the east or
west. Last observed: 12/05/2014.

New York County (Manhattan): Sprint calls drop (50%) or become
highly distorted and generally inaudible crossing from Manhattan to
Queens County on the Queensboro/59th St Bridge. Verizon, the "other" CDMA
carrier, last had this problem circa 2003 or so, and yet Sprint's service
still suffers from this, which is particularly alarming as tens of
thousands of people drive over the Queensboro every day, and yet Sprint
has done apparently very little to remedy the issue. Last observed:
03/04/2015.

New York State Counties other than New York City:

Columbia County, Austerlitz: Sprint calls drop numerous times between
the Taconic State Parkway's JCT with NY-203 (which already has spotty
coverage) all the way east to the end of NY-203 at JCT NY-22 in
Austerlitz. Calls drops repeatedly heading eastward, to the point of
making the phone unuseable, and bouncing back and forth between Sprint's
spotty (at best) network and Verizon's (significantly better) network
makes it difficult to receive incoming calls as well. (If you have a
phone which can be set to roam by default [onto Verizon], this is as
agood a place as any to set such a setting!) By the time the JCT of
NY-203 and NY-22 is reached, there is no coverage at all on Sprint. Last
observed: 07/04/2015.

Dutchess County, Beekman: No Sprint Wireless service along NY-55 in
Beekman, NY, near the JCT with Beekman Rd. / CTY-9. Sprint has generally
poor coverage in eastern Dutchess County (other than some acceptable areas
of moderate coverage along NY-22), and NY-55 is no exception: There is no
coverage from about 2 miles west of the JCT of NY-55(West)/NY-22 all the
way west to the Taconic Parkway; post-pay/subscription customers can
generally roam on Verizon along NY-55, while pre-pay/"no credit check"
customers can not, and will have no coverage and a generally useless
phone/plan along eastern sections of NY-55. Last observed: 04/02/2015

Dutchess County, Beekman: Sprint drops occur along NY-55 just east
of the JCT with Walker Road, and about 1.5 miles west of the JCT with
CTY-9/Beekman Road. Last observed: 01/28/2016.

Dutchess County, Holmes: Sprint wireless voice and data coverage
drops along NY-292 at Waley Lake, near the JCT with South Road. (AT&T
Wireless and T-Mobile also have difficulty to greater or lesser extents
covering the area; Verizon doesn't drop and generally has superior
coverage in the local area and throughout the County.) Last observed:
09/25/2015

Dutchess County, LaGrange: Sprint's coverage drops (both voice and
data) along the Taconic State Parkway at the intersection with Beekman Rd.
Last observed: 12/20/2014

Dutchess County, LaGrange: Sprint drops calls along the Taconic State
Parkway at the intersection with NY-82 (lower intersection; NY-82 again
crosses the Taconic in Columbia County further north). Verizon used to
drop here as well, but Verizon fixed its drop here over 5 years ago.
Sprint, on the other hand, still continues to drop. Last observed:
12/20/2014

Dutchess County, LaGrange: NY-82, approx 3 miles north of the JCT
with NY-55; calls drop north of the firehouse located on the east side of
NY-82. Last observed: 02/04/2015

Dutchess County, Unionvale: Sprint calls drop on CTY-21 along the
S-curve near the Unionvale Town Hall as CTY-21 heads southwestward towards
NY-55 and Poughkeepsie. There is generally very poor coverage in Dutchess
County north of approximately where NY-55 runs, and thus coverage on
CTY-21 is spotty at best the further northeast one drives from NY-55.
Last observed: 01/07/2015.

Nassau County, East Norwhich/Oyster Bay: Sprint Wireless calls drop on
NY-25A approx. 1/2 mile west of the JCT with NY-106/Oyster Bay-North
Jericho Rd. This is the stretch of NY-25A running between NY-107 (to the
west, near CW Post) and NY-106 (which heads up to Oyster Bay) to the east.
Verizon, AT&T Wireless, and even T-Mobile have no problem covering the
area without drops, yet Sprint has never been able to provide drop-free
coverage on this stretch of NY-25A. Last observed: 06/30/2015.

Nassau County, Cold Spring Harbor: Sprint calls drops on NY-25A at
the JCT with NY-108/Woodbury Rd, near Cold Spring Harbor Labs. Most recently
observed on 11/24/2015.

Nassau County, Cold Spring Harbor: Sprint wireless calls drop along
Woodbury Road at the JCT with NY-108. Calls initiated along NY-25/Jericho
Turnpike will drop northbound along Woodbury road by the time NY-108 is
reached; calls initiated along NY-25A/Northern Blvd heading south will
drop along NY-108 by the time it intersects with NY-108. Most recently
observed on 11/24/2015.

Nassau County, Laurel Hollow/Cold Spring Harbor: Sprint drops on
NY-25A at the intersection with Laurel Hollow Rd. NY-25A is a main E/W
road along the North Shore and one of the main access roads to the Cold
Spring Harbor Labs and the towns of Laurel Hollow and Cold Spring Harbor,
yet Sprint calls drop in a number of locations, including the instant one,
on the extent of road between Laurel Hollow and Cold Spring Harbor. Most
recently observed on 01/06/2015.

Suffolk County, Kings Park: Calls drop on NY-25A at the intersection
with Sunken Meadow Road, approximately 1/2 mile west of the JCT with the
Sunken Meadow Parkway. NY-25A and the Sunken Meadow Parkway are heavily
traveled roads on the North Shore, and drops here should have been
detected and corrected long ago, but, typical of Sprint, nothing is done.
Most recently observed on 01/06/2015.

Suffolk County, Smithtown: Sprint calls drop on near the intersection
of Landing Ave at the intersection with Landing Hollow Road, approximately
1/4 of a mile west of the LIRR Port Jefferson Branch tracks. Most recently
observed on 01/06/2015.

Pennsylvania

Chester County, Oxford: Calls drop on US-1 (the 1960's upgraded
freeway segment from the Maryland line through Chester County) at Mile
Marker 10.5, near the State Police station which also appears to be right
next to a cell tower as well. Last observed: 08/16/2015

Lehigh County, Hellerton: Sprint calls drop on I-78 at Mile
Marker 68, approximately 3 miles heading west after the JCT with PA-33
and approximately 1.5 miles before the JCT with PA-412. Last observed:
01/29/2015.

Pike County, Bushkill (Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area):
Sprint Wireless calls drop along US-209/Federal Road from the junction
with Broadhead Rd to the north all the way to where US-209 crosses Suzie
Creek and US-209's name changes to Milford Road, where coverage resumes,
for a distance of about 5 miles. Sprint (as well as T-Mobile, AT&T, and
AT&T Wireless) has very poor to non-existent coverage along this stretch
of US-209, and thus motorists as well as campers and hikers in the Water
Gap area may not be able to summon help or contact authorities should an
emergency arise. Besides tourists visiting the Water Gap/Dingman's Ferry
area, US-209 serves as a major thoroughfare between the I-84/Port Jervis
Area and the I-80 corridor, which heavy daytime automobile use (trucks are
generally prohibited), and has never been properly covered since the
inception of cellular service in the area in the early 1990's. Drop last
occurred: 10/20/2015

Pike County, Matamoras: Sprint calls drop along I-84 west of
Matamoras, as I-84 leaves the Matamoras/Port Jervis area and ascends a
hill as it heads west to Scranton. Calls initiated in Port Jervis will
drop generally around Mile Marker 47. Last observed: 09/01/2015.

Westmorland County, Ligonier: Sprint cellular service has poor to no
coverage on PA-31, between JCT PA-381 heading eastward to Laurel Summit
(on PA-31). At Laurel Summit heading east (down the hill) coverage is
generally better, but both voice and data calls will generally drop
heading westward from the summit going to and past the JCT with PA-381.
Note that when Nextel was still aro8und, calls held in this area (barely),
perhaps due to the better propogation of the Nextel frequencies in the
area. Of course now that Nextel is gone and the Sprint "side" has them it
appears no good use is made of them and, typically of Sprint, it is just
worse, and none of the benefits of all the Nextel frequencies which Sprint
customers were supposedly going to benefit from ever materialized, at
least not here. Typical...Last observed: 05/05/2015

York County, Shrewsbury (PA/MD line): Sprint calls drop on I-83 in
the vicinity of the MD/PA state line. Last observed: 01/29/2015.

Vermont

Windham County, Brattleboro: Sprint calls (voice and data) drop on
I-91 near the Vermont Welcome Center at Mile Marker 5.2, just south of the
Welcome Center's exit ramp. First noted on 07/25/2012, most recently
observed on 08/25/2015.

Windham County, Guilford: Sprint cellular calls drop on I-91 at the
VT/Mass border; northbound, calls attennuate in Greenfield, Mass and drop
by the time the Mass parking areas (NB/SB) are reached right before the VT
line; southbound, calls drop south of Brattleboro (there isn't much
coverage in Brattleboro to start with!), and drop by the time the
(northbound) rest area is reached on the opposite side of the road. Both
Verizon and AT&T Wireless appear to have remedied these drops many years
ago, but, typically of Sprint, they don't seem to bother/care to fix these
issues, even on the main Interstate into Vermont from the south. Most
recently observed: 08/25/2015.